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Scenes and Incidents of the Koutz Dis
arter.

Scenes and Incidents of the Koutz Dis
aster.
A young lady from Ohio was one of the
passengers on the Inflated train, and
when the crash came, with great presence
of mind and energy, she seized an axe
from its resting place on the side of the
car and hewed her way through to a win
dow. Her own safety assured, she per-
sonaliy aided many persons from the
wreck. To use her own language: 81
did all | could, and would have continued
had | not heard DR.. Perry crying and
moaning piteoUsly that his feet We're
burning. Then my strength gave way"
A BOSTON BARTENDER's STORY.
Joseph McCool, bartender of Boston,
said: 81 was in the passenger coach
which was next to the last car in the
train. Just before midnight went into
the smoker, which was just ahead of our
car and Chatted for an hour and came
back to the coach with a young man, who
sat down near me. Just as | had stretched
myself out to 20 to sleep there was an
awfnl crash. | could feel myself thrown
violently toward the top of the car and
then became insensible. On the way up
| realized that all was confusion in the
air, that canes, valises, rods of iron and
lamps were in the air about me. | mus
have regained my CONSCIOUSNESS in very
short time, for when | aWoke all was
darkness in the car and horrible shrieks
almost deafened me. In the end of the
car furthest from me the stove was over
turned and the flames were lust starting
There was a new gas lamp in the car,
with reservoirs reaching from one to the
other. The flames leaped up the sides,
and in less time than can tell it the gas
was burning the whole length of the
coach over our heads. | was wedged in
between two seats, where couldn't move
a limb of my body, and there watched
the fire slowly creep upon me. 1t was a
| terrible sight. In the end of the coach near
the fire | could see a lady caught between
the seats AS | was The fire slowly crept
across the car; she was soon enVeloped in
11Ames, and then in agony she burned be-
| fore my eyes. just across from my seat
| noticed soon before the accident a
| father, his wife and daughter. | saw
| them also crushed together and burned.
| j ust as the flames were blazing a foot or
two away from me man pulled me into
the aisle aud said: Come to the win
dow" He must have mistaken me for
some one else, for the moment he had
looked closely at my face, he dropped me
and hurried through the window with an
| exclamation OF disappointment. | then
painfully crawled after him in safety.
HOW THE MILLERs MET THEIR FATE.
The family named Miller from Dundee,
ILL.,, were en- route for Hungary. There
was the father, mother, two daughters and
two sons, who were hurled over the seats
and driven between the ends of the two
cars. The flames rushed in upon them.
| The father had been Instantly killed by an
iron rod which ran through his throat,
but the rest OF the family were still alive
when the trainmen tried to rescue them.
The men worked with all their might try
ing to drag the children from the pile.
The lire crept nearer and nearer until a
cushion of a seat blazed up just above the
woman's head. The poor creature tried
to speak, but she could make no intellig-
| ibIe sound. Then she attempted to pass
one of her little girls, whose white dress
was stained with blood, to the rescuers
When she saw that death was inevitable
she closed her eyes, and wrapping her only
free arm around the waists OF the children
lying nearest her, awaited the coming
flames. In another moment they had en-
veloped her and her children, and they
were dead. Only one son escaped He
managed to break his way out of the de
briS before the flames caught him.
A middle-aged woman in the day coach
was caught under q stove and burned be
fore the spectators eyes, until her body
was mere parcel of blackened flesh. - ,.,..
DIR. PERRY's TERRIBLE DEATH.
Dr. William Perry, the physician of the
Pan Handle road, was in the sleeper with
his family. The conclusion threw them